Ligia Bezerra, PhD ligia.bezerra@asu.edu

Education 2015 PhD in Portuguese and PhD Minor in Cultural Studies

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Dissertation: Everyday Life in the McOndo and McUnaíma Worlds: Mass Culture in

Contemporary Brazilian and Argentine Fiction Dissertation Committee: Dr. Luciana Namorato (principal advisor), Patrick Dove,

Estela Vieira, Ted Striphas Exam areas: Lusophone prose (medieval to contemporary), Lusophone theater and

poetry (contemporary), Latin American prose (contemporary) 2008 MA in Portuguese

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 2005 MA in Linguistics, passed with distinction

Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Thesis: Tropicalismos na Música Popular Brasileira: Um olhar interdiscursivo sobre a

vertente nordestina da Geração de 1990 Thesis Director: Dr. Nelson Barros da Costa

2002 Licenciatura in Letras (BA in Portuguese and English Languages and Literatures),

summa cum laude Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Employment

2016- Assistant Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State

University, Tempe, Arizona, USA 2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of World Language and Literature, Spelman

College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2008-2013 Associate Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana, USA 2006-2008 Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New

Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras, Universidade

Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Fortaleza, Ceará,

Brazil 2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras, Universidade

Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 2005 (Dec) Trainer, Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Ceará and British Council, Fortaleza,

Ceará, Brazil 2002-2003 Teacher, Wisdom Inglês para Conversação, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

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Research Activity

Publications (* indicates refereed; + indicates invited) In progress Book manuscript: Everyday Life in a Consuming World: Consumer Culture in Twenty-First Century Brazilian Literature. Under review “The Battle for Goods: Consumption and Citizenship in Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother. Journal article. “Citizens of Nowhere: Undocumented Migrants in Regina Rheda’s Narratives.” Journal article. Forthcoming 2018* “The Business of Writing: Literature as a Commodity in Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú.”

Cultural Studies. Published 2017* (Co-authored with Cecília Rodrigues, Ana Catarina Teixeira, and Naomi Wood).

“Marketing Your Program.” Portuguese Handbook. Ed. Margo Milleret. 2016* “A representação da cultura de consumo em Eles eram muitos cavalos.” Revista de Estudos

de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. 48 (2016). 177-190. http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/estudos/article/view/18902/13498

2015* “Um quase-africano Fradique: Resignificações de Fradique Mendes em Nação crioula:

a correspondência secreta de Fradique Mendes, de José Eduardo Agualusa.” Ellipsis. 13 (2015). 79-94. http://apsa.us/ellipsis/13/bezerra.pdf

2015* “Cenas cotidianas: Cultura de consumo e media em contos de André Sant’Anna.”

Revista de Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. 45 (2015). 261-79. http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/estudos/article/view/14768

2012* “Everyday Life in the McOndo World: Consumption and Politics in Claudia Piñeiro’s

Las viudas de los jueves.” Chasqui. 41.2 (2012). 19-32. 2010* “Sabiás, macieiras da Califórnia e cadáveres em campos de futebol: imagens do Brasil

em três canções do exílio.” Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 20 (2010). 34-46. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v98t7pg#page-14

2010+ (Co-authored with Michael Gradoville). “A influência do gênero no uso de dois

marcadores discursivos em elocuções formais.” Estudos sobre a língua culta falada em

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Fortaleza. Explorando dados do PORCUFORT. Ed. Clemilton Lopes Pinheiro. Fortaleza: SECULT, 2010. 185-214.

2007* “Jack soul brasileiro: identidade cultural e globalização na música de Lenine.” O

charme dessa nação: música popular, discurso e sociedade brasileira. Ed. Nelson Barros da Costa. Fortaleza: Expressão Gráfica, 2007. 191-207.

2007+ (transl.) (Co-translated with Nelson Barros da Costa). Translation from English to Portuguese

of Christopher Dunn’s “Senhor cidadão e o andróide com defeito: Tom Zé e a questão da cidadania no Brasil.” O charme dessa nação: música popular, discurso e sociedade brasileira. Ed. Nelson Barros da Costa. Fortaleza: Expressão Gráfica, 2007. 163-87.

2005* “A vertente nordestina da Geração de 1990 da Música Popular Brasileira.” Cultura

lúdica, discurso e identidades na sociedade de consumo. Eds. Maria de Fátima Vasconcelos Costa and Maria da Glória Feitosa Freitas. Fortaleza: Expressão Gráfica, 2005. 301-26.

2005* “O nordeste falando para o mundo: Plurilingüismo em canções de Lenine, Chico

César e Zeca Baleiro.” Práticas discursivas: exercícios analíticos. Ed. Nelson Barros da Costa. São Paulo: Pontes, 2005. 171-84.

2004* “O posicionamento da vertente nordestina da Música Popular Brasileira: Uma análise

de metacanções.” Proceedings of the 20th Jornada Nacional de Estudos Lingüísticos. João Pessoa: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2004. 203-18.

2002* “A influência do fator posição na concordância verbal no português brasileiro.”

Proceedings of the 19th Jornada Nacional de Estudos Lingüísticos. Fortaleza: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2002. 154-68.

2001* “A concordância verbal com sujeito simples e composto no português oral culto de

Fortaleza.” Proceedings of the 3rd Encontro Cearense de Estudantes de Letras. Fortaleza: Universidade Estadual do Ceará, 2001. 185-98.

Conference Presentations Accepted 2018 (May) “Consuming Relationships in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction.” XXXVI

International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Barcelona, Spain. 2018 (July) “Dystopic Brazil: Consumption and Development in André Sant’Anna’s O Brasil é

bom.” XIV International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Presented 2017 (Oct.) “Que país é esse? Fernando Bonassi’s Consuming Brazil in Luxúria.” New

Cartographies Conference, Washington University. St. Louis, Missouri. October 2017. 2017 (April) “The Battle for Goods: Consumption and Citizenship in Anna Muylaert’s The Second

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Mother.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. San Diego, California.

2016 (Oct.) “Consumer Culture’s ‘Collateral Damage’ in Ana Paula Maia’s De gados e homens.” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference. Palo Alto, California.

2016 (Oct.) “Desenvolvimento de um curso de nível intermediário: Relato de uma parceria através da Georgia Portuguese Program Association (GAPPA).” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference. Palo Alto, California.

2016 (March) “The Consuming Self in Ricardo Lísias’ O livro dos mandarins.” XIII International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. Providence, Rhode Island.

2015 (August) “Desenvolvimento de atividades comunicativas a partir de materiais autênticos.” IV Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Português. Washington District of Columbia.

2014 (Oct.) “Between Kurt Cobain and Immaculée Ilibagiza: Mass Culture in Michel Laub’s A maçã envenenada.” International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2014 (August) “Regina Rheda’s Tales of Consumption and Citizenship.” XXII International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. London, England.

2014 (May) “The Consumption of History and the History of Consumption in Post-Dictatorial Brazilian and Argentine Fiction” XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Association International. Chicago, Illinois.

2014 (April) “Cenas do cotidiano: Cultura de consumo e media em contos de André Sant’Anna.” III Colóquio Internacional sobre Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea: Percursos, Cruzamentos, Interseções. Washington, District of Columbia.

2013 (Nov.) “Representations of the Impact of Consumer Culture on Perceptions of Nation and National History in Contemporary Brazilian Narratives.” 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Atlanta, Georgia.

2013 (April) “Por apenas 4x de R$9,98 sem juros. Literature as Commodity in Twenty-First Century Brazilian and Argentine Literature.” 66th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

2012 (Nov.) “A Debt to Oneself: Negotiations of Personal Identities through Mass Culture in the Works of Daniel Galera and Claudia Piñeiro.” Midwest Modern Language Association 54th Annual Convention. Cincinatti, Ohio.

2012 (Oct.) “He-Man, Mad Max 2 and Mitsubishi Pajero: Consumption and Identity in Daniel Galera’s Mãos de cavalo.” International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. Iowa City, Iowa.

2012 (Sept.) “Zapping through São Paulo: Mass Culture and Everyday Life in Luiz Ruffato’s Eles eram muitos cavalos.” XXI International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.

2012 (April) “‘O quase-africano’ Fradique Mendes de José Eduardo Agualusa.” 65th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

2011 (Nov.) “Latino, eu? Towards a New Representation of Brazilians as Latinos in Brazuca Literature.” Midwest Modern Language Association 54th Annual Convention. St Louis, Missouri.

2011 (March) “‘É o super pós-moderno na MTV, tá ligado?’ Crítica do cotidiano em contos de André Sant’Anna.” 8th Annual Graduate Student Activities Committee Conference. Bloomington, Indiana.

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2011 (April) “Lo cotidiano en El material humano, de Rodrigo Rey Rosa.” 64th Kentucky Foreign Language Conferece. Lexington, Kentucky.

2010 (April) “Antes e depois da geladeira: Identidade e consumo na obra de Fernando Bonassi.” 63rd Kentucky Foreign Language Conferece. Lexington, Kentucky.

2010 (March) “Neste grande imenso pet shop: Cultura e consumo em Pet Shop Mundo Cão, de Zeca Baleiro.” 2010 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Saint Louis, Missouri.

2009 (July) “Sabiás, macieiras da Califórnia e cadáveres em campos de futebol: Imagens do Brasil em Canções do exílio.” 2009 American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2009 (July) “Las viudas de los jueves: Deterritorialization within Urban Private Spaces in Post-dictatorial Latin America.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2008 (April) “The Resentful Character in José Henrique Fonseca’s The Man of the Year.” 61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky.

2008 (Oct.) “The Last Prophecy Has Begun con Más Estrellas do que no Céu: Globalized Language Codes in Latin American Contemporary Literature.” International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. New Haven, Connecticut.

2008 (Oct.) (Co-authored with Margo Milleret, Agripino Silveira, Fernanda Bartolomei, Simoni Valadares, Michelle Henrique). “You’ll lead, I’ll follow: The Dance of Program Evaluation and Development: A Roundtable Discussion.” International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association. New Haven, Connecticut.

2008 (April) “Identidade, memória e fragmentação em dois romances da América Latina pós-ditatorial.” 9th International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. New Orleans, LA.

2007 (Nov.) (Co-authored with Michael Gradoville). “A influência do gênero no uso de dois marcadores discursivos em elocuções formais.” 2007 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. San Antonio, Texas.

2007 (April) “Cultural Cannibalism and Globalization in the Music of Adriana Calcanhoto.” III Symposium on Transatlantic Visions on the Luso-Hispanic Literature, Language and Culture. Amherst, MA.

2007 (Jan.) “Jack soul brasileiro”: Globalization and Cultural Identity in the Music of Lenine.” 54th Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Conference. Santa Fe, NM.

2005 (March) “A vertente nordestina da Geração de 1990 da Música Popular Brasileira: Uma Retropicália?” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Department of Education Annual Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2004 (Oct.) “O posicionamento da vertente nordestina da moderna Música Popular Brasileira: Investimento ético.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Letras Undergraduate Student Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2004 (Oct.) “Teaching Literature to Beginners in the English Language Classroom.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Letras Undergraduate Student Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2004 (Sept.) “O posicionamento da vertente nordestina da moderna Música Popular Brasileira: Uma análise de metacanções.” Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Grupo de Estudos

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Lingüísticos do Nordeste Conference. João Pessoa, Brazil. 2003 (Oct.) “Do Nordeste brasileiro ao ‘istrangêro’: Código de linguagem em canções de Zeca

Baleiro, Lenine e Chico César.” Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Letras Undergradute Student Conference. Sobral, Brazil.

2002 (Nov.) (Co-authored with Ana Cristina Cunha da Silva). “Evaluation of Speaking Skills in EFL (English as a Foreign Language).” Braz-Tesol Fortaleza Chapter Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2002 (Sept.) “A influência do fator posição na concordância verbal.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Grupo de Estudos Lingüísticos do Nordeste Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2002 (Apr.) “A concordância verbal no português oral culto de Fortaleza.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação Annual Iniciação Científica Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2002 (March) “‘Catar feijão’ de João Cabral de Melo Neto: ‘Catando’ a geração deste poema com as mãos da semiótica greimasiana.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Letras Undergradute Student Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil.

2001 (Nov.) “A concordância verbal com sujeito pronome relativo no português oral culto de Fortaleza.” Universidade Estadual do Ceará/Letras Undergraduate Student Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2001 (Oct.) “A concordância verbal com sujeito simples e composto no português oral culto de Fortaleza.” Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Letras Undergraduate Student Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2000 (Nov.) “A concordância verbal no português oral culto de Fortaleza.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação Iniciação Científica Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2000 (Oct.) “A mudança do tempo e a construção do personagem Leo Colston em The Go-between, de Leslie Poles Hartley.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Letras Undergraduate Student Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2000 (Oct.) “A substituição de /l/ por /w/: Uma dificuldade dos alunos de inglês como língua estrangeira.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Letras Undergraduate Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

1999 (Dec.) “As vogais nasais em Língua Portuguesa.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Pró-reitoria de Graduação Iniciação à Docência Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

Invited Presentations and Workshops 2017 (Dec.) “República Federativa do Consumo: Imagens do Brasil em O Brasil é bom, de André

Sant’Anna.” VIII Simpósio Internacional sobre Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea: Escritas – Leituras – Resistências. Brasília, Brazil.

2017 (Oct.) “Brazil Under Dictatorship.” Guest Lecture in Professor Julia Sarreal’s History of Latin America class at Arizona State University – West. Glendale, Arizona.

2017 (May) “Português como língua estrangeira: O contexto acadêmico dos EUA.” Panel: Português Língua Estrangeira. Centro de Humanidades/Humanities Center, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

2017 (May) “Tropicalismos na Música Popular Brasileira dos anos 1990: Lenine, Chico César e Zeca Baleiro.” Ouvindo Letras. Department of Linguistics, Universidade Federal do

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Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. 2017 (March) “The Academic Job Market.” 6th Annual Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics

Conference. Graduate Student Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

2017 (Apr.) “The City of Fortaleza.” Skype Conversation with Professor Jeremy Lehnen’s students about the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2016 (Apr.) “Working Class Consumption in Contemporary Brazilian Literature.” Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia.

2016 (Apr.) “Você é o que você consome?” Portuguese Flagship Program, University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia.

2015 (Oct.) “Espaços de consumo na literatura brasileira contemporânea.” Fifth International Colloquium on Contemporary Brazilian Literature: Territories, Communities, and Literary Spaces. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2014 (April) “Cenas do cotidiano: Cultura de consumo e mídia em contos de André Sant’Anna.” III Colóquio Internacional sobre Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea: Percursos, Cruzamentos, Interseções. Washington, District of Columbia.

2012 (Sept.) “Teaching Portfolio and Teaching Statement Workshop.” Panelist in workshop organized by the Indiana University Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. Bloomington, IN.

2012 (April) “Globalização na música de Lenine.” Skype Guest lecture in Professor Jeremy Lehnen’s Brazilian Popular Music class at the University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2010 (Dec.) “Designing Communicative Activities with Authentic Materials.” Workshop given at Professor Martha Nyikos’ Methods in Foreign Language Teaching class at Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.

2009 (Dec.) “A música popular brasileira nos anos 1990.” Skype Guest lecture in Professor Leila Lehnen’s Brazilian Popular Music class at the University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2006 (August) (Co-authored with Diana Fortier and Elaine Hodgson) “It’s a Material World: Resources for Teaching English.” Workshop given at the Braz-Tesol Fortaleza Chapter Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2006 (July) “A Música Popular Brasileira contemporânea.” Talk given at the Universidade Federal do Ceará, International Exchange Program. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2005 (Sept.) “Texto, contexto e cena enunciativa.” Talk given at the Universidade Federal do Ceará, Department of Psychology. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2005 (July) “A Música Popular Brasileira.” Talk given at the Universidade Federal do Ceará, International Exchange Program. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2004 (Oct.) “Noções básicas em Análise do Discurso.” Workshop given at the Universidade Federal do Ceará, Letras Undergraduate Conference. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2004 (May) “O investimento cenográfico da moderna música popular brasileira nordestina.” Universidade Federal do Ceará, Department of Linguistics, Encontros Linguísticos. Fortaleza, Brazil.

2002 (August) (Co-authored with Professor José Américo Bezerra Saraiva). “A canção-vivência na obra de Chico Buarque de Holanda.” Talk given at the Universidade Federal do

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Ceará, Department of Linguistics, Encontros Linguísticos. Fortaleza, Brazil.

Academic Honors and Awards

Grants 2015 (Oct.) Spelman College Faculty Development Grant. Granted $2,000 to present “Espaços

de consumo na literatura brasileira contemporânea.” Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2013 (Fall) (In partnership with Dr. Susan Quinlan, University of Georgia) Brazilian National

Library Foundation. Granted $2,500 to fund the visit of Afro-Brazilian writer Ana Maria Gonçalves to Spelman College and the University of Georgia.

Fellowships and Scholarships 2009 Indiana University Departmental Summer Fellowship, Department of Spanish and

Portuguese. Summer 2009 2008-2009 Indiana University Departmental Fellowship, with tuition and fees, Department of

Spanish and Portuguese. Fall 2008-Spring 2009 2003-2005 CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) Research

Fellowship. Research: Tropicalismos na Música Popular Brasileira: um olhar interdiscursivo entre a Tropicália e Geração de 1990

2000-2002 CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa) Research Initiation Fellowship. Research: A concordância verbal no português falado

Academic awards and recognition Nominated 2017 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award. Arizona State University. Spring

2017. Received 2010 Brantlinger-Naremore Prize for Best Graduate Essay, Cultural Studies Program:

“Everyday Life in the McOndo World.” 2009-2010 academic year 2010 (March) Cultural Studies Travel Award, to present “Neste grande imenso pet shop: cultura e

consumo em Pet Shop Mundo Cão, de Zeca Baleiro.” 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Recognition. Class of 2008 2008 Outstanding Instructor Recognition. Spring 2008 2008 Graduate and Professional Student Association Student Research Allocations

Committee Grant, to present “Identidade, memória e fragmentação em dois romances da América Latina pós-ditatorial.” Spring 2008

2008 Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association Research and Conference Travel Allocation, to present “Identidade, memória e fragmentação em dois romances da América Latina pós-ditatorial.” Spring 2008

2008 Outstanding Instructor Recognition. Fall 2007 2008 Outstanding Instructor Recognition. Spring 2007 2008 Excellent Instructor Recognition. Fall 2006

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2007 Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association Research and Conference Travel Allocation, to present “Cultural Cannibalism and Globalization in the Music of Adriana Calcanhoto.” Fall 2007

2007 Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association Research and Conference Travel Allocation, to present “A influência do gênero no uso de dois marcadores discursivos em elocuções formais.” Fall 2007

2007 Graduate and Professional Student Association Student Research Allocations Committee Grant, to present “A influência do gênero no uso de dois marcadores discursivos em elocuções formais.” Fall 2007

Teaching Experience Courses taught At Arizona State University Intensive Elementary Portuguese (POR 101 [5 cr.]): Spring 2017 (11 students) Contemporary Brazilian Popular Music (POR 494 – Special Topics, cross-listed with Languages and

Cultures SLC 494 [3 cr.]): Spring 2017 (5 students) Intensive Elementary Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (POR 394-I [3 cr.]): Fall 2016 (16 students) Conversation and Composition (POR 313 [3 cr.]): Fall 2016 (8 students); Fall 2017 (4 students) Consumer Culture in Latin America (POR 494 – Special Topics, cross-listed with SPA and SLC 494

[3 cr.]): Fall 2017 (13 students) At Spelman College Brazilian Popular Music (SFLP 354, cross-listed with International Studies and

Sociology/Anthropology [4 cr.]): Spring 2016 (25 students) Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cinema (SFLP 352, cross-listed with Women’s Studies, International Studies,

and Sociology/Anthropology [4 cr.]): Fall 2014 (29 students) and Spring 2015 (16 students) Conversation, Composition, and Culture (SFLP 301 [4 cr.]): Fall 2015 (6 students) Elementary Portuguese I (SFLP 101 [4 cr.]): Fall 2013 (12 students), Fall 2014 (20 students), and Fall

2015 (24 students) Elementary Portuguese II (SFLP 102 [4 cr.]): Spring 2014 (8 students), Spring 2015 (13 students),

and Spring 2016 (17 students) Intermediate Portuguese I (SFLP 201 [4 cr.]): Fall 2013 (8 students) and Fall 2014 (7 students) Intermediate Portuguese II (SFLP 202 [4 cr.]): Spring 2014 (8 students), Spring 2015 (7 students),

and Spring 2016 (10 students) Elementary Spanish I (SFLS 101 [4 cr.]): Fall 2013 (22 students) At Indiana University Intermediate Spanish II (Hisp-S 250 [3 cr.]): Spring 2012 (2 sections); Fall 2012 (2 sections) Reading and Conversation in Portuguese (Hisp-P 317/492 [3 cr.]): Spring 2011 Intermediate Spanish I (Hisp-S 200 [3 cr.]): Fall 2010 (2 sections) Intensive Spanish (Hisp-S 105 [4 cr.]): Spring 2010 (2 sections) Elementary Portuguese (Hisp-P 100 [4 cr.]): Fall 2009 Intensive Portuguese (Hisp-P 135 [4 cr.]): Fall 2008, Summer 2010, Fall 2011, and Summer 2012

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At the University of New Mexico Elementary Portuguese I (Port 101 [3 cr.]): Spring 2008 Intensive Intermediate Portuguese (Port 276 [6 cr.]): Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Portuguese Conversation (Port 202 [3 cr.]): Summer 2007 Intensive Beginning Portuguese (Port 275 [4 cr.]): Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 At Universidade Federal do Ceará Upper Intermediate English [4 cr.]: 2006 and 2003 English Phonology [4 cr.]: 2006 English for Specific Purposes (Reading skills for librarians and secretaries [4 cr.]): 2006, 2003, and 2002 English Morphosyntax [4 cr.]: 2003 Pre- Intermediate English [4 cr.]: 2002 Study Abroad Program, 2005-2008 Advanced Portuguese: Summer 2008 Intermediate Portuguese: Summer 2008; Summer 2006 (2 sections) Elementary Portuguese: Summer 2006, Summer 2005 Instructor of Linguistics (under supervision of Professor Nelson Barros da Costa, designed and taught

Topics in Linguistics (Discourse Analysis), a class for advanced undergraduates in Letras, as part of the CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) Teaching Program), second semester of academic year 2005

Tutor of Portuguese for non-native speakers (under the supervision of Professor Odirene Almeida,

provided tutoring for students of the Study Abroad Program), Summer 2001 and Summer 2002

Teaching Assistant (Monitora) of Lingusitics: Syntax (under the supervision of Professor Márcia Teixeira

Nogueira, provided tutoring for undergraduates of two sections of Linguistics: Syntax as part of the CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa) Teaching Initiation Program), first semester of academic year 2000

Teaching Assistant (Monitora) of Phonetics and Phonology (under the supervision of Professor José

Américo Bezerra Saraiva, provided tutoring for undergraduates of four sections of Portuguese Phonology and four sections of Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology as part of the CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa) Teaching Initiation Program), academic year 1999

At Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú Latin (classic Greek and Roman) Literature: 2006 Brazilian Literature: Romanticism to Symbolism: 2006 Brazilian Literature: Modernism: 2006 History of the Portuguese Language: 2006 Teaching Methodology of Portuguese as a Native Language (Reading): 2006

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Teaching Methodology of Portuguese as a Native Language (Writing): 2005 Portuguese Phonology: 2005 Portuguese Morphology: 2005 Portuguese Syntax: 2005 Brazilian Literature - Origins to Romanticism: 2005 For Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Ceará and British Council Trainer of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers (with Diana Fortier, Elaine Hodgson and Eleonor Benício, provided eighty hours of training to eighty English teachers from public schools from across the state of Ceará. My duties consisted of designing and implementing intensive collaborative workshops on creating task-based activities – for writing, listening, speaking and reading – based on authentic materials), December 2005 At Wisdom Inglês para Conversação – Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Teacher of English, 2002-2003 Elementary through Advanced (Levels 1-8) Conversation through Songs Preparation for the GRE Test Independent Study At Arizona State Uuniversity Melody Parra, Fall 2017 Graduate Student Advising At Arizona State University PhD DISSERTATION COMMITTEES Roberto Ortiz-Manzanilla, Defense TBD PhD EXAMINATION COMMITTEES Roberto Ortiz-Manzanilla, Spring 2017 External PhD Committees Lunara Gonçalves, Defense TBD (University of Georgia)

Undergraduate research At Spelman College Jordan Tucker for Spelman’s Research Day. Paper: “Salsa, Samba, and the Objectification of Women.” Spring 2016

Supervising At Spelman College Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Tamires Frank. 2014-2015

Teaching-Related Consulting

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Consultant (Portuguese Reading and Listening Question Writer). American Councils for International Education, Washington, DC. December 2012-July 2013

Research Interests

20th and 21st century Lusophone Literature and Culture 20th and 21st century Spanish-American Literature and Culture Media, Consumption, and Everyday Life

Professional Development 2016-2017 New Assistant Professor Workshop Series. ASU College of Liberal Arts and

Sciences. Tempe, Arizona. AY 2016-2017 2017 “The Interdisciplinary Road to Promotion & Tenure.” Arizona State University –

West. Glendale, Arizona. April 2017 2017 “Teaching Controversial Subjects.”(via Wiki) ASU Provost’s Teaching Academy.

Tempe, Arizona. April 2017 2017 “Facilitating Small Group Discussions and Dialog.” ASU Provost’s Teaching

Academy. Tempe, Arizona. February 2017 2016 “Scholarly Publishing: Publish Your Research at the Highest Level.” ASU Library.

October 2016 2016 “Designing Authentic Learning Outcomes for Teaching and Assessment.” ASU

Provost’s Teaching Academy. Tempe, Arizona. October 2016 2016 “Leadership vs. Likership: Why Professional Boundaries Matter.” ASU Commission

on the Status of Women. Tempe, Arizona. October 2016 2016 “Assertiveness Training: Learning to Say No & Asking for What You Want.” ASU

Commission on the Status of Women. Tempe, Arizona. October, 2016 2016 “Developing language performance in the classroom: Intermediate to Advanced.”

ACTFL Annual Convention and Language Expo pre-conference workshop “Developing Language Performance in the Classroom: Intermediate to Advanced.” Boston, Massachusetts. November 2016

2016 “ACTFL Annual Convention and Language Expo.” Boston, Massachusetts. November 2016

2015 “Five ways to bring inquiry into the class.” Second Friday Series. Spelman College. Atlanta, Georgia. February 2015

2014 “Flipping the classroom.” Atlanta University Center Library. Atlanta, Georgia. October 2014

2014 Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) training. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Provo, Utah. June 2014

2012 Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR): Reading and listening. American Councils for International Education. Washington, D.C. December 2012

Language Skills

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Portuguese – Superior overall proficiency (native speaker) English – Superior overall proficiency Spanish – Advanced-High proficiency French – Advanced-Mid reading proficiency Italian – Intermediate-High reading proficiency

Service

Review Editorial Boards 2012- Editorial board member of journal Argus-a. Book Reviews Perrone, Charles A. Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas. UP of Florida, 2017. To appear in Chasqui (2017). Article Reviews 2017 Journal of Lusophone Studies 2016 Chasqui 2016 Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 2016 Cultural Studies Abstract Reviews 2009 I Colóquio Discurso e Práticas Culturais. Fortaleza, Brazil. Administrative Organization and chairing of Panel Sessions at Conferences 2017 (July) Organized “Consuming Brazil.” Brazilian Studies Association XIV International

Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Submitted) 2016 (Oct.) Organized and chaired “Representations of Consumer Culture in the Lusophone

World.” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference. Palo Alto, CA 2012 (March) Chaired “Who’s in control? Transatlantic Lusophone Literature” at the Ninth Annual

Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Bloomington, IN

2011 (April) Organized and chaired “Nada elemental, mi querido Watson: investigaciones sobre la novela negra en Latinoamerica” at the 64th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY, April 2011

2010 (April) Chaired Brazilian Popular Culture Panel at the 2010 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Saint Louis, MO

Service to Professional Organizations 2016 Georgia Portuguese Program Association Secretary, November 2015 to June 2016 2015 American Portuguese Studies Association Secretary, January to March 2015 2012 Secretary of the Luso-Brazilian section of the 2012 Midwest Modern Language

Association Convention

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Consulting 2012-2013 Consultant for the American Councils for International Education (Writer and Reviewer of items for national proficiency test in Portuguese), December 2012 to July 2013

Institutional At Arizona State University 2017 Fulbright applications committee At Spelman College 2013-2016 Portuguese Club Mentor. 2014-2016 Spelman College representative on the founding committee of a Georgia consortium

for the teaching of Portuguese at the college level 2015 (Spring) Organizer of the Second Noite Cultural 2013-2016 Portuguese Curriculum and Program development (efforts resulted in an increase

of 160% in enrollment in the Portuguese program between Fall 2013 and Spring 2016):

- Design and introduction of Portuguese 201, 202, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cinema, and Conversation, Composition, and Culture in Portuguese into the curriculum

- Design of Brazilian Popular Music, to be introduced into the curriculum in Spring 2016

- Design and update of Portuguese section webpage and brochures - Development and implementation of recruiting strategies

2013-2016 Partner in a 4-year collaboration with the University of Georgia, funded by Title VI in efforts to consolidate and expand the study of Portuguese in the state of Georgia, particularly at Spelman College and Savannah State University

2014 (Fall) Co-presenter (with Tamires Frank) of “Everyday Brazil: Language and Culture” at the International Education Week

2015 (March) Discussion leader in film screening of Zuzu Angel (Brazil, 2006). Women Herstory Month

2014 (Nov) Organizer of Dr. Leila Lehnen’s visit. Dr. Lehnen gave a talk entitled “Creating Rights: Human Rights and Literature in Conceição Evaristo’s Ponciá Vicêncio.”

2014 (Spring) Organizer of the First Noite Cultural at Spelman College 2014 (Fall) Representative of Spelman College at the Atlanta Regional Education Consortium

Welcome Reception – Brazil Scientific Mobility Program 2013 (Fall) Organizer of the visit of Afro-Brazilian writer Ana Maria Gonçalves. Ms. Gonçalves

gave a talk on “Racism and Human Rights” At Indiana University 2009 (Spring) Workshop presenter at the World Language Festival. At the University of New Mexico 2007-2008 Graduate Student Peer-Mentor for the Peer-Mentoring for Graduates of Color

Program

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2007 Volunteer at the International Student Orientation, Spring and Fall 2007 2007 (Spring) Workshop presenter at the World Language Fair 2006-2007 Brazil Club Vice-President

Departmental At Arizona State University 2016- Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Committee – Spanish and Portuguese unit 2016- Responsible for updating the Portuguese program information on the School of

International Languages and Culture’s website 2016- Portuguese Recruiting Committee (Chair)

- Contacted and met with potential partner programs (Fall 2017) - Wrote a proposal for revising the Portuguese curriculum (Fall 2017) - Request GSD (General Studies Designation) for POR/SLC/SPA 494 –

Consumer Culture in Latin America. Approved (Fall 2017) - Collected and analyzed data on enrollment in Portuguese - Request GSD for POR/SLC 494 – Brazilian Popular Music. Approved

(Spring 2017) - Visited classes to promote Portuguese (Fall 2016 and Spring 2017) - Represented the Portuguese program at the Brazil Club’s Brazilian Day

Festival, 2016 - Represented the Portuguese program at the Spanish and Portuguese Open

House, Fall 2016 and Fall 2017 - Produced promotional material for Portuguese (Fall 2016; Spring 2017; Fall

2017) - Organized and co-hosted Bate-papos (Portuguese conversation table, Fall

2016; Spring 2017; Fall 2017) - Organized the Bring a Friend Day in Fall 2016 - Attended presentation on the Department of State’s consular fellows program

2016 (Fall) Designed placement test for the Portuguese program 2016- Portuguese placement tests (written test + oral interview) 2007 (Fall) Organized Dr. Luciano Tosta’s lecture 2007 (Fall) Graded graduate student proficiency exam in Portuguese 2017 (Fall) Observed and met with Portuguese TAs 2017 (Fall) Organized the POR schedule for spring 2018 2017 (Spring) Night of the Open Door. Hosted the Portuguese program table and taught a

Portuguese mini-lesson 2017 (Spring) Volunteered at the Language Fair. Attended lunch with teachers and taught a mini-

lesson 2017 (Spring) Co-designed a proposal for restructuring the Portuguese program 2017 (Spring) Organized the POR schedule for fall 2017 2017 (April) Attended lunch with incoming freshmen – Orientation 2017-2018 2016-2017 Assisted Portuguese Events Committee with planning the Night of the Open Door

and Homecoming At Spelman College

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2014-2016 Major and Minor Curriculum Review Committee 2014-2016 Research Day Committee 2014-2015 Representative of the World Languages and Literature Department at Spelbound 2015 (Spring) Participant in the Section “The Keys to a Global Conversation: World Languages and

Study Abroad” at the 2015 Spelbound 2014 (Spring) Discussion Leader at the 2014 International Film Festival on Brazilian film

“Gonzaga” At Indiana University 2011-2012 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Graduate Student Research Forum. 2009-2012 Organizer of the Cafezinho (Portuguese Language Table) At the University of New Mexico 2007 (Fall) Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association Computer Assistant 2006-2007 Funding Applications Reader for the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student

Association Research and Conference Travel Allocation 2007 (Spring) Fundraising Committee Member for the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student

Association

Memberships

Professional 2010- Modern Language Association (MLA), since 2010 2014- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), since 2014 2014- Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), 2007, 2008, 2012 and since 2014 2012- American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), 2008-2010 and since 2012 2015-2016 American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese (AOTP), 2015-2016 2013-2014 Latin American Studies Association, 2013-2014 2011-2013 Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), 2011-2013 2003-2011 Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) – Grupo Discurso, cotidiano e práticas

culturais (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil), 2003 -2011 Honorary Phi Lambda Beta (Portuguese language honor society). Delta chapter, inducted 2008 Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars). Inducted 2016